Google's Art Project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKPeN3ZNCOE Google’s new Art Project makes use of the street-view technology to take us by the
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Anything is Possible for Kentridge
If you haven’t seen this documentary (trailer above) on South African artist William Kentridge yet, take
The Kaddu Wasswa Archive
Dutch photographer Andrea Stultiens met Ugandan Kaddu Wasswa in 2008 through his grandson, photographer Arthur Kisitu.
Out my window
Out My Window is a 360° online documentary and the first release from the HIGHRISE project,
Mother Russia
New York City artist Maria Buyondo grew up in Russia and Sweden, the child of a Russian mother and an Ugandan father.
'The Janitor'
When the Johannesburg Art Gallery bought one of Mr. [Gerard] Sekoto’s paintings in 1940, they had
City One Minutes
When sleepless I often find myself browsing through time and space, moving from Johannesburg’s CBD to
Enjoy Poverty
How Euro-Americans - directly and indirectly - interact with the Congolese: only as victims.
Zwelethu Mthethwa @ The Studio Museum
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy_ri7XJik0&w=500&h=281&rel=0] Via Todd Johnson: Opening on Thursday, July 15, at the Studio Museum in Harlem, some
Leave us alone
Breeze Yoko's mural highlights three African political icons: Steve Biko, Amilcar Cabral and Kwame Nkrumah.
African Hospitality
The artist Andrew Putter make use of the past to construct images of how we might live together in the future.
Paul Sika, "Andy Warhol’s grandson"
The very talented Ivorian artist Paul Sika (I’ve linked to Paul’s work last year on my
Video: Interview with artist Thando Mama
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GWdGfKXK3U&w=500&h=307] A 9-minute excerpt from a new short video documentary (20 minutes in all) about the
The Rape of Africa
Celebrity photographer David LaChapelle chose Naomi Campbell to represent how Africa is raped for its resources. Did it work?
America? Begging in Nigeria!
A white woman begging in Lagos's popular Mushin Market. Turns out it is a performance piece.
Afrikaners
The first group of people who called themselves Afrikaners were Orlams people, who would be called coloured in South Africa today.
Is this Nollywood?
With few exceptions, I usually celebrate South African photographers. Among them is Pieter Hugo, whose most
Kehinde Wiley paints African football
Wiley, known for painting black men as figures from Renaissance art, now does the same with Africa's best football talents.
Superheroes of History
Batman watches Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro addressing US media in an imagined black-and-white 1959 photograph.